Galway digital start-up to create ten new jobs

Galway-based digital start-up DigiTally is currently raising €200,000 in seed funding through crowdfunding platform Spark, with plans to build its team up with ten new jobs in coming months.

The company has built a software product that combines a counting app with a reporting dashboard that enables businesses to count, collate, and report on their food gross profit margins, reduce food waste, improve internal operational efficiency and increase margins between 1% and 4.1%.

With more than 100 customers do date across both the UK and Ireland, DigiTally has already enjoyed a 300% increase on 2019 sales even through the Covid-19 pandemic, which has otherwise decimated the hospitality industry.

It has done this through its innovative solution, attracting two of the top three contract catering companies in the UK, who have more than 75,000 sites combined.

Founder Patrick McDermott said that the additional money would assist to digitally secure the additional sales and marketing team that will drive growth and deliver software to over 144,000 Irish and UK food businesses.

“These are challenging times for food businesses, and it is vital that operators look to drive operational efficiency and become as lean as possible. DigiTally is ideally placed in assisting them to ‘go-digital’,” he said.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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